Your Turn: Sept. 25

Published 12:00 am, Sunday, September 24, 2017

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Deyanira Aldana, who was accepted into the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, has her feet washed by a member of the clergy on Sept. 13 during a demonstration about immigration legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington. The parents of the Dreamers are criminals and DACA recipients have reaped the benefits of their parents’ crimes, says a reader. less

Deyanira Aldana, who was accepted into the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, has her feet washed by a member of the clergy on Sept. 13 during a demonstration about immigration legislation on ... more

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Nation of laws

The U.S. is not a nation of immigrants, legal or illegal. We are a nation of citizens and laws.

It is way past time for our elected leaders and law enforcement to start enforcing the laws.

DACA “kids” (many of them adults now) should return to their homeland along with their parents. If not, they should be deported. Yes, they are not here through any fault of their own but through the lawlessness of their parents.

If parents rob a bank of millions of dollars and get their kids (through no fault of their own) accustomed to a lifestyle of luxury, what happens when the parents are caught?

Does our judicial system keep the family together and allow the children to maintain their lifestyle with the stolen money?

David Gay, Alamo Heights

What’s in a name?

I’m already excited about the opening weekend of the 2020 NEISD football season!

High School A (formerly secessionist Lee) vs. High School B (formerly Third World oppressor Churchill); High School C (formerly slave owner Madison) vs. High School D (formerly egomaniacal warmonger MacArthur); High School E (formerly imperialist Roosevelt) vs. High School F (formerly AIDS ignorer Reagan).

High School G (Johnson) gets a pass (awaiting determination if Lady Bird being married to Vietnam baby killer LBJ is a disqualifier).

The left will not be satisfied with the Lee name-change decision. The left will be emboldened by it.

Kevin Kalisky

Wake-up call

How many “wake-up calls” will it take for climate deniers to wake up to the fact that the Earth is getting warmer, including the ocean’s waters?

As the sea temperatures rise, more moisture goes into the atmosphere, producing more energy and rain for hurricanes. Hurricane Harvey passed over Gulf waters about 7 degrees warmer than the seasonal average.

Harvey didn’t take as many lives as Katrina in 2005. But the financial costs will be much higher. Many saw Katrina as a “wake-up call” for the Bush administration, which had just withdrawn from a global climate agreement. Now we’ve had Harvey, a few months after President Donald Trump withdrew from the Paris climate accord.

Trump is not alone in denying basic science. Texas GOP Rep. Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, recently wrote in an article in Heritage Foundation that global warming was producing “beneficial changes to the earth’s geography.”

Really? Just ask people who live in cities like Miami where the sea has inundated neighborhoods. It’s time to recheck your policies for flood insurance. Thousands of people in Houston found this out the hard way.